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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9
OS:
Windows XP SP1
Network:
Windows 2003 Server
Database:
Visual FoxPro
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Thread ID:
01051458
Message ID:
01051475
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>Hi
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>While my main application, which has quite a few forms, is running, I wish to launch a Reminder form when a cetain date and time are reached (a DateTime field is in my Reminder table).
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>How can I monitor the date and time in the backgroound for this to happen?

Hi Raymond,

Is time really important here? If not, then I'd check at startup only. But I guess you regard time to be important. So, I propose a TIMER object that checks the value of DATETIME() every minute or so.
Groet,
Peter de Valença

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